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Henry Adams Quotes
Brief author info: Henry Adams (1838-1918) American historian, scholar, man of letters.
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Friends are born, not made.
You say that love is nonsense... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
He had fallen into the usual masculine blunder of mixing up smartness of intelligence with strength of character.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for, if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Success Quote
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Success Quote
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Inspirational Quote
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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